Lubricant dynamics in the sub-nanometer clearance regime

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3694-3698

  Marchon, Bruno ^a   Dai, Qing ^a   Knigge, Bernhard ^a   Pit, Remmelt ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk drive; Lubrication; Tribology

Indexed keywords

FILMS; HARD DISK STORAGE; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TRIBOLOGY;

DISK-SLIDER CLEARANCE; LUBRICANT FILM BEHAVIOR;

LUBRICANTS;

EID: 34548095323     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.902972     Document Type: Article

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